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• Middle Age Misery Peaks at Age of 47.2, Economist Says
  I can validate this science.
• Typeface Reveals Spatial Economical Patterns
  "From these experiments, we can take typeface as an important aesthetic element to understand cities. Apart from its artistic influence on our urban city, it also correlates significantly with amenity types, household incomes and other socio-economic characteristics."
• Of Grids and the Great Chicago Fire
  "Each of these grids scales information, whether domestic, geographic, musical, or textual, and on behalf of its user, by turns a bureaucracy, an empire, a church, and the emerging merchant class."
• Jane Jacobs’s Theories on Urban Planning—and Democracy in America
  In her comparative study of fallen empires, Jacobs identifies common early indicators of decline: “cultural xenophobia,” “self-imposed isolation,” and “a shift from faith in logos, reason, with its future-oriented spirit … to mythos, meaning conservatism that looks backwards to fundamentalist beliefs for guidance and a worldview.”
• Mile High DJ Supply Hosts a Weekly Scratch Meetup for Turntabalists
  “We're all just going forward, backward, on and off.”
• Ugly Gerry
  A font made from gerrymandered congressional districts.
• This researcher created an algorithm that removes the water from underwater images
  Whoa.
• To Help Coral Reefs Come Back, Fake It (With Sound) 'Til Fish Make It
  Audio engineer on a coral reef = my dream job.
• Hey that's my ornament!
  You Had One Job → "Best Christmas tree ornament ever."
• Get an Emdash
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